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DRC: MSF Responds to Mass Rape in South Kivu

January 11, 2011

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On the night of January 1, a large number of women were brutally raped by groups of armed, uniformed men in Fizi, a town in South Kivu Province, eastern DRC. By January 3, an MSF mobile team had provided medical care to 33 victims. But the area has become so tense, the team has not been able to return to Fizi since.

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Tags: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sexual Violence

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